Thursday, June 15, 2023 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Professor Henri Gooren, Director of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Anthropology - Oakland University
We will learn about the decline and recovery of Catholicism in Latin America after 1960. Professor Gooren will discuss the membership growth explosion of Protestantism, especially Pentecostalism from 0% to 20%, 30% or even 40% in some countries. He will share the explosion of Mormonism, studied firsthand in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. We will learn about the significant rise of the nonreligious population in Latin America over the past 40 years, from near 0% to 4-10%
Location:
Birmingham Next